Professional use of pesticides in wildlife management an overview of professional wildlife damage management

The types of damage caused by wildlife are many and varied, and can be costly and far-reaching. Until now, there has been little effort to identify and evaluate generalities across that broad range of species, methods and topics. Wildlife Damage Control promotes principle-based thinking about managing impact. It documents and discusses the key principles underlying wildlife damage and its control, and demonstrates their application to real-life topics – how they have been used in management actions or how they could be tested in the future. It synthesises the wide but diffuse literature dealing with the impacts of vertebrate pests and encourages readers to adopt a more theoretical framework for thinking about pest impacts and ways to manage them. The book is organised around key principles that apply across species, rather than looking at individual species, and is damage-based not pest animal-based. Within each chapter there are exercises designed to help readers learn and evaluate key principles. Conservation biologists, ecologists and others involved in wildlife management will find the sections covering principles in biodiversity conservation, of production such as agriculture, and in human and animal health of real value.

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APPLICATION OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL MODEL IN WILDLIFE DAMAGE MANAGEMENT

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences ◽

10.1142/s0218202592000259 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 02 (04) ◽

pp. 423-439 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

SUZANNE M. LENHART ◽

MAHADEV G. BHAT

Keyword(s):

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Real Life ◽

Optimal Solution ◽

Distributed Parameter ◽

Parameter Control ◽

Wildlife Damage Management ◽

Distributed Parameter Control ◽

Time Problem ◽

Wildlife Damage ◽

Spatio Temporal

A bioeconomic model for optimal control of wildlife damage by migratory small mammal populations is developed under the framework of a nonlinear distributed parameter control problem. The model first simulates the spatio-temporal dynamics of dispersal population by parabolic diffusive Volterra-Lotka partial differential equation and then optimizes a criterion function of present value combined costs of wildlife damage and harvesting. The existence of a unique optimal solution for a finite time problem is proved. An iterative procedure for numerical solution of the Optimality System with parabolic equations of opposite orientations is developed. The theoretical model is applied to a real life problem using biological and economic data for beaver populations under certain simplistic assumptions.

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Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management 2004-2013

Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference ◽

10.5070/v426110459 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen , M. Vantassel ◽

Scott , E. Hygnstrom ◽

Paul , D. Curtis ◽

Raj Smith

Keyword(s):

Wildlife Damage Management ◽

Wildlife Damage

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Innovative Solutions to Human-Wildlife Conflicts: National Wildlife Research Center Accomplishments, 2006

10.32747/2007.7205657.aphis ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Scientific Information ◽

The United States ◽

Research Center ◽

Wildlife Damage Management ◽

Innovative Solutions ◽

Wildlife Damage ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Strategic Program

The National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) functions as the research arm of Wildlife Services (WS) by providing scientific information on the development of socially acceptable methods for wildlife damage management. NWRC has identified four strategic program goals: (1) developing methods, (2) providing wildlife services, (3) valuing and investing in people, and (4) enhancing information and communication. WS is dedicated to helping meet the wildlife damage management needs of the United States by building on NWRC's strengths in these four key areas. This annual research highlights report is structured around these programs goals.

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